Near the Old City

Yesterday I went to the other end of town to the Nanshi district. Some streets still had some small, old houses. Many were really falling apart. It probably is wishful thinking that they would be kept and restored. The bulldozers work night and day tearing down the old. Just on my street in a week some workers took down a beautiful granite storefront and replaced it with some cheap, ugly beige tile. They worked all night. On another corner a brick building was razed and completely removed in a day. There is always someone available to do whatever you want to have done.